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Tired of dinosaurs yet? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Neither is the movie-going public. For the fourth straight weekend, Jurassic World laid claim to a little mini-epoch and cemented itself as the biggest, baddest, roaringest movie around. Sure, maybe it’s looking a bit long in the tooth these days, earning a mere $30.9 million. But […]

Someday, when paleontologists dig through the rubble of our current age, they’ll discover the fossilized box office receipts for this June. They’ll carefully brush around the remnants of our days with their specialized whisk brooms, examine the strata and utter low whistles. “Yes,” they will say to each other. “This was truly the age of […]

The day of the dinosaurs has lasted for another epoch. Or, at least, one more weekend. Despite facing a new warm-blooded challenger in Inside Out, Jurassic World roared to another victory, ripping and tearing its way to a truly monstrous $102 million (estimated, of course), bringing its North American total gross to $398.2 million. If […]

Let’s face it: No one wants to tangle with a T-rex, genetically modified or not. So when the technically enhanced dinosaurs of Jurassic World started rampaging through multiplexes around the world, we all knew there was going to be some pretty serious carnage left in its wake. But no one expected anything quite like this. […]

Well, it wasn’t exactly the biggest box-office tremor of the year. Avengers: Age of Ultron still has that title sewn up for the year. Still, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s San Andreas proved to be a stone-cold winner, shaking moviegoers out of an estimated $53.2 million to shimmy up to the top of the box office. […]

It wasn’t exactly a win for the ages. But hey, maybe that means hard cold cash won’t be so important in the future. Tomorrowland strapped on a currency-powered jet pack and then bounced and tumbled across the box office field this weekend with an estimated $33 million take ($40.7 million if you count Memorial Day […]

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Gatsby says of his great love, Daisy, “Her voice is full of money.” Perhaps the same can now be said of Fat Amy. In an appropriately pitched battle at the box office, Pitch Perfect 2 took on two lauded actioners and warbled past them both, trilling its way […]

Reese Witherspoon’s Hot Pursuit tried to chase down the superheroes. The comedy flipped on its lights, cranked the siren and radioed for backup. But let’s face it: There’s only so much you can do when your quarry flies a quinjet. Avengers: Age of Ultron kept its hulkish grasp on the box office crown this weekend, […]

Yeah, you know your movie is saddled with some superhuman expectations when $188 million draws a collective “meh.” That’s the bittersweet fate of Avengers: Age of Ultron. The superhero movie zoomed to a massive $187.7 million opening (estimated, of course)—the second biggest opening ever. And to be clear, no one’s crying over Ultron’s box office […]

It may be leaking a little nitrous down the stretch. But Furious 7, the biggest blockbuster from the Fast & Furious franchise, still had enough horsepower to chug past this weekend’s competitors and take its fourth straight checkered flag. Four box office wins in a row is quite the achievement—a feat not accomplished since The […]

Paul Blart gave it all he could. But the guy’s little Segway just couldn’t keep up with the Fast & Furious gang’s turbocharged, skyscraper-leaping sports cars. Furious 7 proved once again that a body in motion tends to stay in motion—motoring all the way to No. 1 against some lackluster competition. Sure, Furious is beginning […]

Sure, maybe it slowed a little in its second week. But there’s still no stopping Furious 7. Vin Diesel’s supercharged action flick lost nearly 60% of its audience, but it still outpaced its nearest competitor by a factor of three and roared through the weekend’s checkered flag with an estimated $60.6 million. In just two […]

It wasn’t exactly a shocker that Furious 7, the latest chapter in the durable Fast and Furious franchise, took the checkered flag this weekend. But the fact that it lapped the field five times? Yeah, that might’ve raised an eyebrow or two. Or singed ’em clean off. Furious 7 might as well have been a […]

All right now, click your heels together and repeat after me: There’s no movie like Home. There’s no movie like Home. There’s no movie like … Home, DreamWorks’ newest animated alien lark, parked its bubble-like spaceship right at the top of the box office. Sure, maybe the flick didn’t earn enough to buy a big […]

In the Divergent franchise, people typically fill one of five primary factions: Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless and Erudite. But this weekend, another faction was in play—one that changed everything: Opulent. OK, so technically Tris, Four et al are members of the Divergent faction (which makes sense, given the name of the series and all). But […]

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